Street Art

Film projects

We've entered a few film competitions, mostly very short ones like the 48 Hour Film Project for the International Film Challenge. The issues with using a DSLR for making films let me to write the Magic Lantern firmware.

Microscopy

Photographs of currency, monitors, technology and other things taken with a USB microscope at up to 250x magnifications. Read on for more info...

Transit of Venus

During the 2012 Transit of Venus we setup on the roof of a building in SoHo, NYC to watch it with a telescope and film it with my Canon 5D on a T-mount adapter. If you missed it, the next one will be in 2117.

Cameras and equipment

Magic Lantern firmware

In 2009 I reverse engineered the firmware in the Canon 5D Mark 2 camera and wrote the Magic Lantern firmware to add features that I needed for some of my film projects. Since then it has been ported to nearly every Canon DSLR model and provides an enormous range of features including RAW video and HDR. It even has a wikipedia page.

Large format photography

I designed an adapter to align my DSLR to the film plane of my 4x5 field camera so that I can take advantage of the full range of camera motions and use my antique lenses. The "full frame" 5D is effectively a "crop sensor" since it is significantly smaller than the 4x5 film plane. Read on for more info on this adapter...

LED Ring Light

I experimented with a laser cut ring light based on a circular PCB of white LEDs that Adam brought back from China. They work fairly well, although the petal shaped hood of the 24-70 cases a shadow unless the light is at the very edge of the plastic.

Pinhole cameras

I built a simple pin-hole lens for my 5D Mark II by drilling a large hole in body cap, covering it with foil, and using a sharp needle to poke through. The full frame sensor is sensitive enough to shoot video. A few photos.